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100% agreed. I'm not advocating we "clone Reddit", however I do think we should think about and take meaningful steps to improve accessibility to non-"techy" people even if that means borrowing a few things from Reddit here and there.
Because let's face it, Reddit wasn't a whole-cloth original creation of spez and kn0thing. It's bones can be traced back to Digg, vBulletin, earlier BBS incarnations, in some respects even USENET - especially the way users can create topics/communities/subreddits on their own (yes, I know this isn't how USENET works now, but I promise it used to work this way if you were outside the main controlled newsgroups).
I'm a smart guy. I've got a lot of years of internet experience. I can make Lemmy work, and find content on it. It's cumbersome. My wife, is very techy by any reasonable standard but not as much as I am, has difficulty using it. She finds the structure unintuitive and confusing.
If those of us participating in this thread are the 0.1%, she's the 1%. To me, this moment, this movement, is about ensuring there's a place where people are free to discuss things that monied interests can no longer control. That's what makes the fediverse great - we can spread the load and demand out and make it manageable for normal people to do this.
I don't want another schmuck coming along telling me what ad I have to look at, or what I'm not allowed to discuss, or what app I have to use ever again.
I'm not the smartest guy in the room, I'm not claiming to have the answer only a suggestion. However, I am confident that this is a problem we need to tackle in some way if we ever want to achieve growth in "normal users".
Completely agree that there needs to be some strides in usability. I'm in exactly the same situation with myself and my wife in terms of what's needed to be able to recommend Lemmy to her.
I just wanted to get people thinking about a "product" direction and set of solutions to these problems that weren't only aimed at replicating Reddit.